PODCAST Microfinance: The Key To Africa’s Growth Absa | Corporate and Investment Banking > Insights and Events > Microfinancing: The Key To Africa’s Growth SHARE NBFI Series | Episode 04 How do unbanked Africans borrow money? From microfinancing institutions, who drive much of the continent’s growth. Kenneth Makenna, Head of Non-Bank Financial Institutions at Absa Regional Operations, explains what that means – and where formal banks fit in – in our Absa Insights Series podcast. Absa Corporate Investment Bank · Podcast 04: Non-Bank Financial Institutions in Africa Featured guest Kenneth Makenna Head of Non-Bank Financial Institutions Absa Regional Operations Related Podcasts Episode 29 Mike Keenan Head of Fixed Income and Currency Research Absa Group FX Series Interest rates: cuts, consequences and currency reactions After an interest rate cut in South Africa and a jumbo rate cut in the United States, what’s next for currencies like the rand? Find out in this episode of Coffee Break Commerce. Episode 28 Mike Keenan Head of Fixed Income and Currency Research Absa Group FX Series Doctor Copper’s Foreign Exchange Prognosis The copper price is one of the best predictors of global economic and foreign exchange (forex, or FX) trends. In this episode of Coffee Break Commerce we explain why rand investors should pay closer attention to Doctor Copper. Episode 27 Mike Keenan Head of Fixed Income and Currency Research Absa Group FX Series Rands, Dollars, and Hamburgers What is the Big Mac Index, and what is it telling us about the value of the rand? We take a bite out of this foreign exchange (forex, or FX) yardstick in the latest episode of Coffee Break Commerce.